IDOL OF OWIIYHEE. 
Idol of Hawaii, or Owdydee, one of the Sandwich Islands, 
Adjacent to the governor’s house stand the ruins of Ahuena, an 
ancient heiau, where the war-god was often kept, and human sacri- 
fices were offered. Since the abolition of idolatry, the governor has 
converted it into a fort, has widened the stone wall, and placed upon 
it a number of cannon, ffhe idols are all destroyed excepting three, 
wiiich are planted on the wall, one at each end, and the other in the 
centre, where they stand li e centinels amidst the guns, as if de- 
signed by their frightful appearance to terrify an enemy. 
On the 20th of August, 182S, I visited the ruui%5>iid took the above 
sketch of one of the idols, which stood sixteen feet above the wall ; it 
was upwards of three feet in breadth, and had been carved out of a 
single tree. 
This monster may he considered as a tolerable specimen of the 
greater part of the Hawaian idols. The head has generally the most 
horrid appearance, the mouth being large, and usually extended wide, 
exhibiting a row of large teeth, resembling in no small degree the 
